Collateralized reinsurance news

Stone Ridge Asset Management has grown assets under management across its mutual catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities and reinsurance fund strategies by more than 8% in the last quarter of record, with additional AUM growth in the following weeks taking them to around $7 billion, a new all-time high.

The extent to whether catastrophe bonds have truly become a mainstream investment product was a key discussion point during Artemis’ 2026 Bermuda ILS Executive Roundtable, in which experts from across the ILS sector discussed whether rated bonds, pooled ILS offerings, and enhanced secondary liquidity are ready to unlock vast new sources of traditional capital.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has signalled that a long-awaited consultation on new laws to establish a Protected Cell Company (PCC) structure that could be used for collateralised reinsurance arrangements and efficient insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance is coming soon.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation once again benefited from meaningful ILS manager and capital markets support for its traditional reinsurance needs in 2026, with these third-party capital investors taking 52% of the placement, while Nephila Capital was the largest single participant.

As our next catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities (ILS) market conference Artemis London 2026 moves closer, we’re delighted to announce four more expert speakers. Join us in London on September 1st for a full-day of in-depth discussion about the ILS market and valuable networking, register to attend the conference here.

Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has now finalised its reinsurance risk transfer tower of almost $2.82 billion for 2026, securing $691 million of traditional reinsurance at the June 1 renewals, to add to its $2.125 billion of outstanding catastrophe bond protection.

Youssef Sfaif, the President and Chief Operating Officer of Everest Group’s third-party reinsurance capital manager Mt. Logan Capital Management, Ltd. is set to depart from the company later this year, we’ve learned from sources.

Oxbridge Re Holdings Ltd., the Cayman Islands based reinsurance company, alongside its subsidiary SurancePlus, has announced annualised returns of 29.3% and 43.4% for investors in its 2025- 2026 EtaCat Re and ZetaCat Re tokenized reinsurance offerings, which has exceeded their original respective target returns of 20% and 42%.

As market volatility continues to drive a rising demand for structured solutions, reinsurers are increasingly forced to handle complex client objectives all at once, and being able to successfully execute these deals requires underwriting, pricing, and capital teams to be well aligned from the very start. In order to tackle this, Northern Re has built […]

Augment Risk, the risk capital and reinsurance solutions broking firm, has hired well-known insurance-linked securities market executive Brad Livingston, who joins the firm to strengthen its ILS team and in particular is expected to help grow the private ILS offering in property risk, given his collateralized reinsurance expertise.